Senior Project Management Support

The Josef Group; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Josef Group in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Senior Project Management Support to monitor IT portfolios and support senior government programs. You will contribute to strategic planning, develop roadmaps, and prepare reports for executives, while coordinating with multiple entities to ensure alignment with priorities and funding.

The role requires strong communication skills, deep PM knowledge, and the ability to translate technical topics for non-technical audiences in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Requires BS degree and 8–12 years of relevant experience or Masters with 6–10 years of relevant experience.
• Draft products with strong writing and grammatical skills.
• Knowledge of portfolio, program, and project management discipline.
• Familiarity with planning, programming, budgeting, and execution discipline.
• Knowledge of key performance indicators.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze IT portfolio of programs and their services.
• Support evolution of sponsor's strategic direction and priorities.
• Make recommendations with strategies, roadmaps, risks, gaps, and dependencies; align with framework and funding issues.
• Assist government clients with program goals, schedules, and reports to executives.
• Communicate technical topics to senior-level audiences.
• Collaborate across multiple entities to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategic planning

Written communication

Analytical thinking

Cross-organizational collaboration

Cost/schedule/risk tracking

PM/portfolio frameworks

Stakeholder management

Education

BS degree

Masters (preferred)

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Project Management Support

TS/SCI CI Poly

$180K to $190K

Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management Experience - Monitor and analyze IT portfolio of programs and their associated capabilities and Services
• Strategic Planning Experience - support the evolution of the Sponsor’s strategic direction and priorities
• Make recommendations to aid sponsor decision-making, to include proposed strategies and/or roadmaps; identified risks, capability and performance gaps, and dependencies; alignment with the strategic framework and priorities; and funding and related program issues
• Assist government clients with programmatic goals and objectives, schedules, and reports to the senior-level executives
• Communicate technical topics in a non-technical manner to senior-level audiences
• Extensive experience in collaboration across multiple entities

Qualifications

Required:

• Current and active TS/SCI Clearance with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph (preferrably from this client).
• Requires BS degree and 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Draft products that reflect strong writing and grammatical skills.
• Knowledge of portfolio, program, and project management discipline.
• Familiarity with planning, programing, Budgeting, and execution discipline.
• Knowledge of key performance indicators.
• Strong analytical competence, problem-solving, communication and organizational skills Provide audience-appropriate written and verbal communications and demonstrate strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Work with seniors in diverse, fast-paced, multi-task environment managing competing priorities.
• Produce deliverables in multiple formats as needed (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Develop program assessment processes and methodologies.
• Tracking, reporting key progress on, and analyzing cost, schedule, risk and performance.
• Monitoring investment compliance.
• Developing business cases, concepts of operations, and memoranda agreements.
• Monitoring, forecasting, evaluating, and assessing programmatic trends and relationships.
• Developing and maintaining project plans and schedules.
• Developing integration and transition plans.
• Conducting quality reviews of products and services.
• Familiarity with Counterintelligence tools.